<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>RAC Foundation Blog</title>
	<atom:link href="http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>Economics, environment, mobility, safety</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:43:04 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='racfoundation.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>RAC Foundation Blog</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="RAC Foundation Blog" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>Road trip to the 4 corners of Britain: by bike not car. In aid of @brakecharity @gbextremetour</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/road-trip-to-the-4-corners-of-britain-by-bike-not-car-in-aid-of-brakecharity-gbextremetour/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/road-trip-to-the-4-corners-of-britain-by-bike-not-car-in-aid-of-brakecharity-gbextremetour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philipgomm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road safety]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s a road trip and a half. Travelling to the four corners of the British Isles and some. It would be a long enough venture by car, but Graham Brain, isn&#8217;t on four wheels but two. He will cover some 1,500 miles over the next 35 days to raise money for the charity Brake. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1594&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/road-trip-to-the-4-corners-of-britain-by-bike-not-car-in-aid-of-brakecharity-gbextremetour/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/513230e1dd997ff97201d702fc9d1551?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">philipgomm</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>God bless #Europe? One EU move few will moan about. #oilprices @halfon4harlowMP @catherinemep</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/god-bless-europe-one-eu-move-few-will-moan-about-oilprices-halfon4harlowmp-catherinemep/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/god-bless-europe-one-eu-move-few-will-moan-about-oilprices-halfon4harlowmp-catherinemep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 08:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philipgomm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another fuel price story. The news late yesterday that European Union anti-trust regulators had raided offices of energy giants BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Norway’s Statoil firmly took the spotlight off the pricing of petrol and diesel at motorway service stations and placed it further up the supply chain, looking at allegations of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1590&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/god-bless-europe-one-eu-move-few-will-moan-about-oilprices-halfon4harlowmp-catherinemep/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/513230e1dd997ff97201d702fc9d1551?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">philipgomm</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Motorway #fuelprice policy hits headlines (again) @halfon4harlowMP @FairFuelUK</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/motorway-fuelprice-policy-hits-headlines-again-halfon4harlowmp-fairfueluk/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/motorway-fuelprice-policy-hits-headlines-again-halfon4harlowmp-fairfueluk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philipgomm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly if a policy is good enough to be announced once, it is good enough to be announced twice. I would not want to be dismissive of the stories in the media about the government looking at ways of making data about fuel prices at motorway service stations more transparent to drivers i.e. putting up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1587&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/motorway-fuelprice-policy-hits-headlines-again-halfon4harlowmp-fairfueluk/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/513230e1dd997ff97201d702fc9d1551?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">philipgomm</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Remember the icy winter? Drivers who were stuck in snow in Kent can blame the French.</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/remember-the-icy-winter-drivers-who-were-stuck-in-snow-in-kent-can-blame-the-french/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/remember-the-icy-winter-drivers-who-were-stuck-in-snow-in-kent-can-blame-the-french/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philipgomm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For hundreds of drivers who were trapped in nightmare weather conditions earlier this year it will be hard to believe, but the conclusion of a new report for the RAC Foundation is that when it comes to dealing with snow and ice, by and large the authorities here have significantly upped their games in recent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1582&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/remember-the-icy-winter-drivers-who-were-stuck-in-snow-in-kent-can-blame-the-french/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/513230e1dd997ff97201d702fc9d1551?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">philipgomm</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>@car2go &#8211; but where? (@carplustrust)</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/car2go-but-where-carplustrust/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/car2go-but-where-carplustrust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iwengraf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, car2go – Daimler’s one-way car club using Smart cars – launched in Birmingham.  This is the second UK city to see these “Boris cars” on the roads, after London. Last year, the RAC Foundation published Car Rental 2.0 which demonstrated what impacts adoption of various kinds of car club might have on traffic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1577&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/car2go-but-where-carplustrust/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/92b6aa973a596c67a51c4ddf353ff0c7?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">iwengraf</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://racfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/car2go.jpg?w=500" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">car2go</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Drivers distracted more by mobile phone use than drugs and alcohol</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/drivers-distracted-more-by-mobile-phone-use-than-drugs-and-alcohol/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/drivers-distracted-more-by-mobile-phone-use-than-drugs-and-alcohol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elizabethbox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[texting while driving]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[92% of all adults in the UK own and use a mobile phone. For the first time ever in the UK, mobile phone usage has outstripped land line use, with over half of all calls being made by mobile phones. The average Briton now sends 50 texts per week. The younger generation significantly more. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1571&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/drivers-distracted-more-by-mobile-phone-use-than-drugs-and-alcohol/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0d084a8e579570699ca4f3c8bc221f73?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Elizabethd</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://racfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/texting-graphic.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Texting graphic</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Catching them young. Child pedestrians &amp; road deaths. What to teach &amp; when #roadsafety</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/catching-them-young-child-pedestrians-road-deaths-what-to-teach-when-roadsafety/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/catching-them-young-child-pedestrians-road-deaths-what-to-teach-when-roadsafety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philipgomm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is, in case you have missed, is the UN Road Safety Week. Of all the worthy causes highlighted in this, that or the other, day/week the annual toll of death and injury must be one of the most important. Annually 1.24 million people are killed on the world’s roads. Of these, 22% &#8211; 270,000 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1568&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/catching-them-young-child-pedestrians-road-deaths-what-to-teach-when-roadsafety/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/513230e1dd997ff97201d702fc9d1551?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">philipgomm</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why #M6 toll owner has no reason to drop fees even if it is a ghost road @richardwestcott</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/why-m6-toll-owner-has-no-reason-to-drop-fees-even-if-it-is-a-ghost-road-richardwestcott/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/why-m6-toll-owner-has-no-reason-to-drop-fees-even-if-it-is-a-ghost-road-richardwestcott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>philipgomm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So much for privatising the road network or encouraging private sector investment in it, now there are those who are calling for those small parts of the network not in public hands to be nationalised. Today&#8217;s FT (page 2) reports a plea for the M6 Toll road to be returned to us and run on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1553&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/why-m6-toll-owner-has-no-reason-to-drop-fees-even-if-it-is-a-ghost-road-richardwestcott/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/513230e1dd997ff97201d702fc9d1551?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">philipgomm</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://racfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/m6-modelling-report.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">M6-modelling-report</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pedal power not pedal to the metal. A multi-modal day trip to France.</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/pedal-power-not-pedal-to-the-metal-a-multi-modal-day-trip-to-france/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/pedal-power-not-pedal-to-the-metal-a-multi-modal-day-trip-to-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iwengraf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1549</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend – the first nice weekend of the year – I took a little excursion to the French town of Gravelines – a pretty coastal town about 15 miles south west of Dunkirk &#8211; by car, bus, boat and bike. To catch the 9.25 sailing, and wanting a bit of a lie-in, I drove [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1549&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/pedal-power-not-pedal-to-the-metal-a-multi-modal-day-trip-to-france/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/92b6aa973a596c67a51c4ddf353ff0c7?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">iwengraf</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fuel and carbon savings vs jobs? European Parliament votes on CO2 targets for cars</title>
		<link>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/fuel-and-carbon-savings-vs-jobs-european-parliament-votes-on-co2-targets-for-cars/</link>
		<comments>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/fuel-and-carbon-savings-vs-jobs-european-parliament-votes-on-co2-targets-for-cars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucalytton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Low carbon cars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The environment committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament yesterday voted in favour of the 95 g/km CO2 emissions target for 2020, including the use of controversial ‘super-credits’, i.e. having sub-50 g/km vehicles count multiple times towards reaching the target. They also voted in favour of a setting a ‘corridor’ target of 68 to 78 g/km [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=racfoundation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=996363&#038;post=1546&#038;subd=racfoundation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://racfoundation.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/fuel-and-carbon-savings-vs-jobs-european-parliament-votes-on-co2-targets-for-cars/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/3a4d388e3ee47a5ee253559aa4b71694?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">lucalytton</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
